Leah Angstman

Fiction Writer, Poet

Louisville, CO
Colorado US

Author's Bio

Leah Angstman is a transplanted Midwesterner, unsure of what feels like home anymore. She serves as Editor-in-Chief for Alternating Current Press and The Coil, and a reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Her fiction, CNF, and poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Electric Literature.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:
In Between Altered States: Manipulation (Zygote in My Coffee, 2013)
,
In Between Altered States: Revenge (Zygote in My Coffee, 2013)

Poetry

Anthologies:
America Is Not the World (Pankhearst Press, 2016)
,
Cities: A Book of Poems (Chuffed Buff Books, 2014)
Journals: ,
Fall Lines
,
Midwestern Gothic
,
New Mexico Review
Prizes won: 

Leah is the recent winner of the Loudoun Library Foundation Poetry Contest and Nantucket Directory Poetry Contest and was a placed finalist in the Bevel Summers Prize for Short Fiction (Washington & Lee University), Pen 2 Paper Writing Competition (in both Poetry and Fiction categories), Saluda River Prize for Poetry, Blue Bonnet Review Poetry Contest, Baltimore Science Fiction Society Poetry Contest, and West Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition. She has earned three Pushcart Prize nominations.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
MI
Michigan
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Last update: Nov 30, 2017